Kiyoshi Kitagawa (北川 潔) (born December 5, 1958, in Osaka) is a Japanese-American jazz double-bassist.

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Kiyoshi Kitagawa
Kitagawa performing at the 2018 Oslo Jazz Festival
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Born	(1958-12-05) December 5, 1958 (age 65) Osaka, Japan
Genres	Jazz
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instrument(s)	Double bass
Years active	1980s–present
Labels	Atelier Sawano

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Kitagawa first played bass guitar, and was in a rock band as a high school student. He switched to double bass while a student at Kansei Gakuin Daigaku, and played in the 1980s with Sadayasu Fuji and Takashi Furuya. In October 1988, he immigrated to the United States, where he lived in New York City.^[1] Kitagawa joined to Winard Harper's the Harper Brothers, and played with Kenny Barron, Andy Bey, Jon Faddis, Kenny Garrett, Jimmy Heath, Susannah McCorkle, Makoto Ozone, Ben Riley, and Terrell Stafford in the late 1980s and 1990s. He worked with Barron again several times in the 2000s, as well as with Brian Blade and Danny Grissett, and worked in the 2010s with Regina Carter and Charles McPherson.